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Apple announces new 2017 iMacs, offers improved screens, Kaby Lake processors, USB-C ports on board

The new iMac was just announced at WWDC and it includes some interesting upgrades. Apple has, according to CEO Tim Cook, included the “best Mac displays ever,” upping the brightness to 500 nits to make them 43 percent brighter while bringing support for a billion colors. The new units also feature faster Intel Kaby Lake […]

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OS X 10.9.3 update boosts maximum amount of VRAM recognized by recent Apple notebooks

If you’re hesitant about updating to the recently-released OS X 10.9.3, there may be good news if you’re a recent Apple notebook owner. Per French news site Mac4Ever and MacRumors, updating to 10.9.3 increases available VRAM from 1024MB to 1536MB, boosting the size of the shared memory, possibly to further improve 4K performance on the […]

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TechTool Pro 5.0.5 Released

On Tuesday, Micromat released version 5.0.5 of TechTool Pro, its best-selling utility software for the Mac. The new version, a 56.5 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: Improved RAID volume support. Fixed TechTool Protection system preference loading issue. Added Trash History subcategory to the TechTool Protection system preference. Added low-level file defragmentation to […]